A 'cannibalistic' Mormon cricket infestation has left Nevada residents feeling 'imprisoned' indoors.

• Nevada residents are sharing movies of their cricket-infested homes. 
• They are saying that the large crickets scent horrible and have compelled them to remain indoors. 
• “Oh candy child lord Jesus, I am a prisoner in my own residence,” one resident mentioned.

Nevada residents are locking themselves inside their properties — however not by selection. 

A current infestation of Mormon crickets in Nevada has compelled owners to remain indoors, as hundreds of thousands of those bugs descended on their homes, lawns, and effectively, every thing else. 

One resident, Colette Reynolds, shared a video on TikTok exhibiting tons of of 1000’s of those locust-like creatures crawling throughout her garden — and the supply packages that she’s been ready every week for. 

Reynolds mentioned that the crickets usually are not solely carnivorous however cannibalistic — and that when she drives over these creatures on the road, she sees “the dwelling ones flip again round to devour their pals that bought ran over.”

“Oh candy child lord Jesus, I am a prisoner in my own residence,” Reynolds mentioned, including that the crickets are “foul,” “disgusting,” and have a horrible scent to them.

In one other video, TikTok consumer @mikayla_x shared a video of her home utterly swamped with crickets. 

“I cried the ENTIRE strategy to my automotive which was additionally COVERED,” she wrote.

One other Nevada resident, Kerstin Ann Morales, confirmed what it is prefer to drive on a street infested with crickets in a video posted on TikTok. The crickets had been proven lining each inch of the street overlooking the mountains, turning the idyllic views right into a surreal and apocalyptic sight.

Within the video, a person sporting a short-sleeved shirt was proven using a bike on the street, making an attempt to keep away from driving over the bugs.

“I really feel like I hear crunching,” Morales mentioned.

Mormon crickets final infested Nevada in 2019. These creatures are mentioned to be energetic within the state for between 4 to 6 years earlier than changing into dormant once more.

They’re native to a number of states within the northwestern US, together with Nevada, and might develop as much as two inches in size.

“Principally, these bugs are one technology a yr, so about July they begin laying eggs, usually these eggs will develop within the winter and hatch within the spring,” Jeff Knight, an entomologist with the Nevada Division of Agriculture, advised native tv station KSL-TV.

Reynolds, Morales, and the Nevada Division of Agriculture didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Insider despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.